On December 24, 1887, “Paul Kauvar” opened
at the New York Standard Theatre, with Joseph Haworth
and Annie Robe, and thereafter started on a stage
career whose history is long and varied. It reached
London, May 12, 1890, under the management of Augustus
Harris, at the Drury Lane, with William Terriss and
Jessie Millward heading the cast.

Nym Crinkle liked “Paul Kauvar” because
of its vigourous masculinity. To him there was
in it the “scintillant iron,” “the
strong arm, ruddy at times with the tongues of promethean
fire.” It is a big canvas, avowedly romantic.
“It is,” he wrote, after the play had been
running in New York some months, “a work of
great propulsive power, of genuine creative ingenuity,
of massive dramatic effectiveness.” On that
account it is well worth the preserving and the reading.

NEW NATIONAL THEATRE.

Washington, D.C.

W.H. Rapley. Manager.

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Saturdayevening,... May 5th,
1888,

Grand Production for the Benefit of

The Statue of Washington,
to be presented by

The United States to the Republic of France,
of the latest and greatest New York success.